Carol Fisher is committed to curbing the impact that humans have on our environment and preserving our valuable natural resources in Wisconsin. She brings more than 20 years of financial and business experience including work with non-profit organizations. In her current role as technical accountant at The Nature Conservancy, she supports financial compliance across the world-wide entity.

Previously, Carol worked in non-profit accounting at Wisconsin Energy Conservation Corporation (now Slipstream) as controller and chief financial officer and at the Elvehjem (now Chazen) Museum of Art as assistant director for administration. While working for the accounting firm, Grant Thornton, Carol was a Loaned Executive for the United Way of Dane County. Beyond accounting and auditing, Carol has experience with strategic planning exercises, capital financing and banking relationships, human resource management, facilities planning, IRS reporting, and general business management.

In 2019, Carol joined Gathering Waters' finance committee. She also volunteers as treasurer on the board of the Midwest Renewable Energy Association and serves on the Madison Community Foundation audit committee. In the past, she served on other non-profit boards including the Wisconsin Environmental Education Foundation (now part of Wisconsin Natural Resources Foundation), Institute of Management Accountants, and the Blue Stars Drum and Bugle Corps.

For fun, Carol joins her music making friends as a trumpet playing member of the Forward! Marching Band which is Madison’s community activist street band, bringing spectacle and music to the streets to help fuel social change, have fun, and build community.